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Rhode Island Voters to Decide on Spending $20 Million for Port Upgrades

July 12, 2016

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Bananas, pineapples and pears — thousands of them — stream across the docks on their way to supermarkets throughout the Northeast. A crane unloads a shipping container of merchandise bound for CVS stores.

Used Toyotas hop a freighter for West Africa.

These are examples of the long-term vision, maybe decades away, that city and state officials have for a half-mile stretch of the Allens Avenue waterfront best known in recent years for strip clubs, zoning fights and failed redevelopment plans.

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